Tennessee Williams
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past-but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely, relentlessly, he unmasks the lies and delusions that sustain Blanche, until her frail hold on reality is shockingly severed....
7) Baby doll
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, ©1956
Description
Cotton-mill owner Archie Meighan, married to nineteen-year-old "Baby Doll", looks forward to the day his wife turns twenty and will finally allow him to sleep with her. But he has competition in the form of sly business competitor Silva Vacarro, who covets both Archie's cotton mill AND his young and beautiful wife.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, 1959
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
Series
Publisher
Hollywood Entertainment DVD
Pub. Date
c2005, 1989
Description
An ambitious but charming young man returns to his home town after a prolonged stay in Hollywood. He brings with him a once beautiful but now faded movie queen with the intention of capitalizing upon her fame for his own ends. But when he rekindles an affair with a former flame, he brings down the wrath of her father, a local political boss who swears revenge.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2002, 1976
Description
"Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner portrays the sensitive spinster Alma Winemiller in this 1948 drama by Tennessee Williams, a radically revised version of his earlier play Summer and Smoke, set in Mississippi at the turn of the century. Frustrated with longing for the socially prominent young doctor next door, the eccentric, highly emotional minister's daughter decides to settle for one night with him in a rented hotel room."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1964
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine. As his emotional state continues to unravel, and the group's problems increase,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, ©1961
Description
Chance Wayne, an ambitious man craving fame, returns to his southern home with an alcoholic movie star in tow, Alexandra Del Lago. Hoping to capitalize on Del Lago's fame and checkbook, Chance seeks to reunite with his former girlfriend. He finds he is still regarded by others as an unsavory and unwelcome hustler, especially by the father of his ex-girlfriend, a local political boss.